I do have faith in the power of conversation, otherwise i wouldn't be doing this. But there are certain moments in history that really will not benefit from erring on both sides when one side is either obviously illegitimate or the probability of its being legitimate is so low. So to take the two topics at hand, trump and covid i consider it totally irresponsible to have gone down the rabbit hole of questioning the election. To have platformed any kind of conversation about that strikes me as totally irresponsible. We had a fire raging in our society, and our democracy was clearly in jeopardy. It was being actively put in jeopardy by trump and much of the republican party. Of course, all of this
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